Hate doesn’t exist only at societies’ extremist edges – it’s how we run our politics | Joumanah El Matrah

After almost 24 years in the welfare sector, I believe the group we hate more than any other is the poor

In August, Tanya Gersh, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Centre, was awarded $14m in a lawsuit against Andrew Anglin, the publisher of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, for encouraging "an online anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation campaign" against Gersh and her family.

Anglin has been here before; there are two other judgments against him for hate speech. In one case, the presiding judge ruled that Anglin "acted with actual malice when they published false statements, with knowledge of the falsity of those statements or with reckless disregard for the truth".